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HYDERABAD, May 28: A large number of people, including women and children, held a demonstration outside the press club on Sunday in protest against supply of contaminated water to residents of the city.
The demonstration was organised by the Hyderabad Development Forum.
The protesters raised slogans against the Hyderabad district government, Wasa and HDA authorities.
Speaking on the occasion, forum leaders Ghulam Mohammad Rind, Shakoor Mallah and Fehmida Nahiyoo said that thousands of people, especially children were suffering from gastroenteritis and other waterborne diseases due to the supply of contaminated water to city.
They said that four children had already died but the authorities had failed to supply clean water.
They said that not only the people of Hyderabad but also people of the entire province were being forced to drink poisonous water.
They demanded that the authorities should take measures to supply clean drinking water to all residents of the city without any discrimination.
SIBTE HASSAN: The secretary general of the Communist Party of Pakistan, Mr Imdad Kazi, has said that Sibte Hassan was a great Marxist intellectual and his books were a great asset for oppressed people of the country.
Speaking at a function here on Sunday, he said that the rulers of Pakistan did not have anything on their agenda for the downtrodden people.
The function was organised by the Sibte Hassan Yadgar Committee at Sheeraz House Latifabad.
He said that feudal lords and fascist commission mafia had always exploited the poor people and put forward illegal and unconstitutional demands to blackmail powers that be.
He called upon the people to wage a relentless struggle against the two mafias.
Veteran leftist leader Jam Saqi said that Pakistan had not been able to produce another intellectual of the calibre of Sibte Hassan.
Mansoor Saeed said that Sibte Hassan always thought on scientific lines which was reflected in his writings and added that he believed in democracy and was a great revolutionary.
He said that Sibte Hassan never compromised with the establishment.
Mansoor Saeed said that he was arrested in the 70s and remained in jail for 18 months but did not budge an inch from his ideology.
Iqbal Khan, Asim Akhund, Tahir Zaidi, Mujeeb Shaikh, Zulfiqar and Farrukh Abbas Abedi spoke on the occasion.
